Are You The Bride Of Christ? Part 2 of No Man knows The Day Or Hour Series

Exodus 12

We are walking in today--Are You The Bride Of Christ? Part 2 of No Man knows The Day Or Hour Series

Witness husband & wife throughout the Bible:  H376 iysh spelled ayin, yod, shin--man, male (in contrast to woman, female), husband, human being, person (in contrast to God), servant, mankind, champion, great man, whosoever, each (adjective), contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):—also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, husbandman, great, mighty man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, none, one, people, person, steward, whosoever, worthy. 

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H802 ishshah spelled aiyn, shin, hey--woman, wife, female, woman (opposite of man), wife (woman married to a man), female (of animals), each, every (pronoun) ​ feminine of H376 or H582; a woman, each, every, many, none, one, together, Often unexpressed in English.

Ruth 3:8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.

The Torah:  Genesis 2:22-25, 4:1, 4:17, 8:16, 9:20, 12:19, 13:16, 17:5, 20:7, 20:11; Numbers 1:44, 12:1, 30:3, 30:7-8, 36:8; Deuteronomy 3:20, 17:7, 20:7, 21:15, 27:14, 22:16, 22:29, 24:5

Prophets:  Isaiah 4:1, 36:16; Jeremiah 2:6, 3:1, 5:1, 6:11; Hosea 2:2, Micah 7:6, Malachi 2:10

Writings: Psalm 1:1, 128:3, Proverbs 5:21, 11:2, 11:16-17, 12:4, 31:30; Song of Solomon 5:9

Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Exodus 12:2
This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.

THE ANCIENT HEBREW WEDDING CEREMONY

How Does it Picture Mashiach Yeshua & His Bride?

Behold I Stand at the Door & Knock
The word of Elohim is basically the story of a wedding, from start to finish. It is a love story of a loving Father, seeking the perfect bride for his son, Yeshua. He is searching for a bride who is totally devoted, pure of heart, in love only with him, submitted and perfect in His sight. Such a picture of this is found in the basic structure of the Ancient Hebrew Wedding Ceremony, you will see the Heavenly Father, and the bridegroom, Yeshua sending the “servant” which is the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit). The attendant of the bride is Mosheh/Moses (representing the Torah), and the attendant of the groom is Eliyahu/Elijah (representing the spirit of prophecy). And then there are the guests who are redeemed people, but they are not the bride.

Matthew 24:36-44: But of the day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.... Therefore, be also ready: for in such an hour as you think not, the Son of man comes.

Matthew 25:10 the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with Him to the marriage and the door was shut.”

Revelation 19:7-8: Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of set-apart ones (saints).”


In most weddings, there are 3 groups of people:

1.) The guests, forming the largest group.
2.) The attendants of the bride and the groom, usually a small group.
3.) The bride & her bridegroom.

All are content and happy within their situation. But, only the bride gets to go into the “chuppah”(bridal chamber) with the bridegroom in the New Jerusalem on Mount Zion and live in his house forever. She has an intimacy with him that no one else has. The bride goes away with him for a “seven-day” wedding just like Leah and Ya’aqob (Jacob) as seen in Genesis 29:27-28. Their wedding lasted for seven days, and at the end of seven days, Ya’aqob (Jacob) was also given Rachel as a wife. Leah represents the “Ten Northern Tribes of Israel” for Leah had “ten children.” These “Ten Northern Tribes” later on became known as “The House of Ephraim” and they have “Gentile companions” that are joined to them as “born-again” believers. so the bride who is typified in Leah will be “caught up” to meet him in the air on Yom Teruw’ah , and then she will be taken into the “chuppah” (bridal chamber) for seven days. In Revelation 11:11, the “Two Witnesses” will be killed and their bodies will lie in the streets for “three and a half days.” I believe that this is in keeping with the pattern of their Messiah who was also “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). During the “ten days” between the two feasts of Trumpets & Atonement, the first three of these days are when the bride follows the same pattern as her bridegroom. She must die to her old sinful body and then be raised up on the third day.

1 Thessalonians 4:17
 then we who are left still alive will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord.

Matthew 12:40
For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the depths of the earth.

Then for the next seven days, she will be in the bridal chamber with her bridegroom, and at the end of seven days, she will return on the Day of Atonement aka Yom Kippur. This is when Messiah will also be married to the other bride typified in Rachel. This is when the Jews who were “sealed” will finally see their Messiah “face-to-face” and they will during the ten days between Yom Teruw’ah & Yom Kippur, the Jewish people refer to this as “The Ten Days of Awe.” These “ten days” between the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruw’ah) and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) are also referred to as “ten days of tribulation”.  After the “seven-day” wedding with the first bride typified in Leah, the bridegroom will then return and he will marry the other bride typified in Rachel. Rachel represents the Jews who have not yet recognized Yeshua as their Messiah until He returns. But they will be “sealed” in advance in the foreheads because they will not take the “Mark of the Beast” nor will they worship his image.

Ezekiel 9:4
Adonai said to him, “Go throughout the city, through all Yerushalayim, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and crying over all the disgusting practices that are being committed in it.”

Revelation 7:3
“Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads!”

The bride typified in Rachel must suffer “ten days of tribulation” during what is called “The Ten Days of Awe.” The Hebrew word for “awe” is #7264 in the Hebrew Strong’s Concordance and it is the word “ragaz” which means: “trouble, to provoke.” During these ten days, the other bride typified in Rachel will be “provoked to jealousy” as she realizes that her sister has been taken into the “chuppah” with the bridegroom ahead of her. In Leviticus 16, we read the instructions for the High Priest each year as we find out that he was commanded to mingle the blood of a bull with the blood of a goat:

Romans 11:11
 In that case, I say, isn’t it that they have stumbled with the result that they have permanently fallen away? Heaven forbid! Quite the contrary, it is by means of their stumbling that the deliverance has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

Leviticus 16:15
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.

Leviticus 16:18
And he shall go out unto the altar that is before YHWH, and makes an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.

What is interesting is that Leah’s name means “cow” (bullock) and Rachel’s name means “lamb” (goat). What does this typology mean? It means that on that final day of Yom Kippur, our Messiah will act as the High Priest (Kohen Gadol) who will mix the blood of these two families (two brides) together and he will make them “one bride” or “one stick” in His hand! As you can see from the above prophecy, the Two Houses of Yisra’el will be made one stick or one bride on that day!

Ezekiel 37:16-19
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick (tree), and write upon it, For Yahuwah (Judah), and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick (tree), and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick (tree) of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions 17 And join them one to another into one stick (tree); and they shall become one in your hand. 18 And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these? 19 Say unto them, Thus says YHWH Elohim; Behold, I will take the stick (tree) of Joseph,which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick (tree) of Yahuwah (Judah), and make them one stick (tree), and they shall be one in my hand.

At the end of the Millennium, there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth (Revelation 21:1), which will come down out of Heaven. There will also be a “New Jerusalem” who will be “adorned as a bride” for her husband.

The bride is the one who “overcomes” and she is mentioned in Revelation 3:7-13 in the letter to the Congregation at Philadelphia. She is marked, she is submissive and yielded to her bridegroom, guarding and obeying the terms of his marriage covenant, the Torah. He knows her, and she knows him, and their fellowship is sweet. She has an “open door” into the marriage on the Feast of Trumpets because she has not “denied his name” and she has also “kept his word” or in other words, his commandments Torah. In Revelation 3:10, she is “kept from the hour of temptation” which take place during the “The Ten Days of Awe” which leads up to Yom Kippur!”   Shema, Selah--hear, listen and obey the words of Yahweh, take time to reflect and consider this lesson